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That would be the end of me, Helen! :-0

But yay, you survived!! :-D

Thanks Cherilyn,

sorry for the delay on my reply..I had no internet for 2 days..how hard was THAT?

thanks for the link, will send off an email.

Cheers Helen.xxx

Hi Helen

Sorry but NLA only goes up to the mid-1950s...
:-(

Maybe try contacting the paper, it seems it is still going - http://heidelberg-leader.whereilive.com.au/

Hopefully they have an archivist or someone who can help! Let me know how it goes. :-)

Hi Cherilyn,

I have checked the Ryersoni Index and found a couple of death notices I would like to see....hoping they will give me the girls married names, but no one does look ups for the paper and years I want...

hoping you may have better luck than me on the NLA site....PLEASE!

HARVEY Thomas James Death notice 21FEB1967, 70 late of Alphington
Heidelberg Leader 01MAR1967

HARVEY Ruby Evelyn Death 29MAR1968 at RGH, Heidelberg, late of Alphington
Heidelberg Leader 03APR1968

fully understand if you also can't find them.....Helen.

Hello Cherilyn,

I have found the information I was looking for on FLORZ - placename in Victoria -it should be FORE which is the abbreviation for FOREST CREEK, the old name for the Castlemaine area - and it is where Jessy Scot was born and, sadly, died aged 6 months. There is a cemetery site for Forest Creek.

Many thanks for your kind help.

Reece

Thank you, Cherilyn I also think it might be a mistranscription. I will send off for the birth certificate to see if that will help.

No, there isn't on this family unless you can suggest where to look for outgoing passengers for America after 1857.

Alice Scott is said to have left John and gone to America with a man named Edwards, they married on the boat and that the records were destroyed in the Great Fire in San Francisco. ( I know that there was more than one "great fire"). They had 2 children born in America.

John "married" again had a family and is buried in Maldon, Victoria with his second wife.

Thanks again,

Reece

No idea sorry, unless it is a badly mistranscribed FITZ for Fitzroy?

Was that your only question? 'm not sure if there was more you were seeking...

Hello Cherilyn,

I am still hoping to find some more on the John Scott & Alice Morris family - have you seen the place name FLORZ anywhere in your research in Victoria, please, as the first child Jessy is shown as born 1853 Florz, Victoria.

John and Alice appear to have gone to the goldfields in Victoria after 1852 and I have found a second marriage for John Scott through a descendant and further family.

I am very grateful for your kind help.

Reece

Hello Cherilyn,

Many thanks for looking - much appreciated.

Yes, I wondered if this might have happened so now to search immigration to America for Alice Anne and her daughter.

Kind regards,

Reece

Hi Reece

Sorry I can't see her either.

Are you sure she didn't go to America with her mother?

Hello Cherilyn,

You recently helped me with a Morris query and I hope you might also be ab le to do so again.

Annie Elizabeth Scott b. 1855 Caslemaine, Victoria to John Scott and Alice Anne Morris.

I have tried searching the Victorian site looking for her death or marriage but without success. Her parents separated, her mother going to America and her father remarrying in 1870 living at Maldon, Victoria. Two other babies died Jessy b/d 1853/1854 and Walter Thomas b./d 1856/57 Victoria.

I would appreciate it if you could please have a look for anything on Annie Elizabeth Scott for me.

With grateful thanks.

Reece

Surname: PETERSON
Given Names: Janet Jemima
Event: B
Father: Daniel [b. Glasgow]
Mother: Jane SINCLAIR [b. Edinburgh]
Birth Place: MELBOURNE
Year: 1870
Reg Number: 9903

Hi Janice

Robert married Hazel Bell Rose DARBY in 1934 in Plantagenet district (Southern coast, e.g. Albany, Mt Barker), reg no 47.

She died 6/2/1978 aged 75. Robert died 7/8/1977 aged 76. They are interred together at Karrakatta Cemetery (see mcb.wa.gov.au). You can request the funeral application quite cheaply thru that site as well. Death certs are quite expensive in WA!

This is Hazel's father's death notice:

The West Australian, Saturday 12 July 1941
DARBY.-On July 10. 1941, at Perth, Thomas Arthur Darby, of 7 Matheson road, Belmont, husband of the late Jennet Jemimah Darby, loving father of Lester, Hazel (Mrs. R. McCaig), Neil and Phyllis (Mrs. W. Ross): fond father-in-law of Robert, Ivy and Bill, grandfather of Valda and Nannette: aged 64 years.

Jannet was known as Minnie. Her death:

DEATHS.
DARBY.— On June 3, 1930, at her late residence, Moreing-street, Belmont, Jannet Jamiema (Minnie), dearly beloved wife of Thomas Arthur Darby, and loving mother of Lister, Hazel, Neil and Phyllis Darby; aged 60 years.
DARBY. — On June 3, 1930, at her late residence, Moreing-street, Belmont, Jannet Jamiema (Minnie) Darby, loving sister of Rose (Mrs. H. Johnson) and fond sister-in-law of Mrs. B. Selby (Albany); aged 60 years.


Thomas DARBY & Jannet Jemima PETERSON married in Victoria in 1896 (reg 6829). Their children:

1. Thos Arthur b. 1899 Elsternwick Vic, d. 1899 Fitzroy North Vic
2. Lester Thomas Arthur b. 1900 Brighton Vic, m. Eva May SCOTT 1945 Perth, d. 24/2/1974 aged 73
3. Hazelbelle Rose [as per reg] b. 1902 Fitzroy North Vic
4. Neil Sinclair b. 1906 Perth WA, m1. Ivy May GIBSON 1932 Perth [d. 1954], m2. Margaret Susan SCOTT 1954, d. 9/10/1983 aged 77
5. Phyllis Peterson b. 1909 Perth WA, m. Wm H ROSS 1945 Perth, d. 3/8/1997 aged 88

WWII enlistment of Hazel's brothers:
DARBY LESTER THOMAS ARTHUR : Service Number - W21391 : Date of birth - 26 Jul 1900 : Place of birth - MELBOURNE VIC : Place of enlistment - CLAREMONT WA : Next of Kin - MCCAIG HAZEL

DARBY NEIL SINCLAR : Service Number - WX13828 : Date of birth - 24 Aug 1906 : Place of birth - BELMONT WA : Place of enlistment - CLAREMONT WA : Next of Kin - DARBY IVY


I think I have found contact details for 2 grand-daughters of Thos & Jannet (Hazel's nieces). I can PM you if you like with the details.

Hi CheriIyn
I was wondering if you could help i am trying to find marriage and death certs in western australia on my granduncle Robert McCaig born 3rd April 1901 Old monkland Lanarkshire Scotland.
His parents are John McCaig b 1873 and Catherine Roy b 1883
Robert went to Austraila to live from London to Fremantle 1928 on a ship called the Barrabool.All i know that my dads was visiting Perth roughly 1966 Robert was living in Perth at that time and was married that was the last we heard from him. am at a loss here.If you can help in anyway it would be most appreciated .
Kind regards
Janice

My pleasure :-)

Try this link, I have given you all the info you need on p39 of this thread (p.s. no www needed)

online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-search?action=purchaseImage

Thank you Cherilyn :-) I really appreciate all this. I just tried to search for George Mitchell's birth certificate in Scotland but it brought up nothing and I cannot find George and Olives marriage certificate and mostly because I cannot get the births and marriage registry site to work for me ~ the only one that is working is the NSW one.

When I read Georges middle name, I remembered it :-) Thank you :-)

Which leads me to :

Family Name: BUCHANAN
Given Name: Geo Mitchell
Spouse Family Name: BROWN
Spouse Given Name: Olive
Registration Year: 1927
Registration Number: 25
Event: M

and his WWII enlistment, confirming the Scottish origin:

BUCHANAN GEORGE MITCHELL : Service Number - 19254 : Date of birth - 27 Feb 1903 : Place of birth - GLASGOW SCOTLAND : Place of enlistment - MELBOURNE : Next of Kin - BUCHANAN OLIVE

Sorry that is about all I can find. George & Olive's marriage certificate would be probably the most useful, as next step.

An Olive BUCHANAN is buried at Seymour Cemetery. A headstone photo is available ny email. See www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ausvsac/Seymour.htm

This is probably her death:

Surname: BUCHANAN
Given Names: Olive
Father: Brown Robert
Mother: Mary Kell [surname may be BEWICK, see death below]
Death Place: SEYM
Age: 83
Year: 1985
Reg Number: 15493
Event: D

Her mother's death???

Surname: BROWN
Given Names: Mary Kell
Father: Bewick Joseph
Mother: Mary KELL
Death Place: FAIR
Age: 84
Year: 1962
Reg Number: 13866
Event: D

Hi Cindy

This could be his father's death?

Surname: BUCHANAN
Given Names: George Horne
Father: George
Mother: Jane HORNE
Death Place: ASCO
Age: 89
Year: 1957
Reg Number: 13583
Event: D

still looking...

I am really stuck ~ The only Information I have is ~ George Buchanan and his wife's name was Olive lived in Seymour, Victoria Australia, they had one son ~ Bruce Oliver, died in the last year and two daughters, Shirley and Janet. George owned a business called Buchanan Motors ? in Seymour. George told me that his fathers name was George Horne [Horn} or Horne George [Not sure if the spelling is just horn or with a e?? and they came from Scotland. WOW I wish I had more to go on but that is all I have. George died in the late 1990's, in the state of Victoria. Trying to trace back. Thanks in advance :-)